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Dorothea Helen Puente was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was convicted of three and the jury hung on the other six. Newspapers dubbed Puente the "Death House Landlady&...

Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer who murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenage accomplices, David Owen Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll. Upon discovery, it was considered the wor...

Katherine Mary Knight, though not the first person to skin and eat her lover, was arguably the most depraved monster in Australia's grizzly homicidal history.

The lynchings were carried out by a mob of San Jose citizens in St. James Park across from the Santa Clara County Jail. The killings were tacitly endorsed by Governor James Rolph Jr., who said he would pardon anyone convicted of the lynching.

Elisa Lam, a Canadian student, went missing in January 2013 while staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Her disappearance gained widespread attention when a surveillance video of her acting strangely in the hotel's elevator was released. Several weeks later, her body was found in one of the hotel's rooftop water tanks. Her death was ultimately ruled as accidental drowning with bipolar...

The investigation into the disappearance of Suellen Roberts and her daughter Lexis led police to an alleged killer who has been legally dead for years.

Michael Thomas Gargiulo is a convicted American serial killer. He moved to Southern California in the 1990s and gained the nickname The Hollywood Ripper. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death on July 16, 2021. He currently resides in San Quentin State Prison.

When Zack was gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police were baffled by his death. But this seemingly perfect family man had a bushel of secrets to hide: a sordid tale of a troubled love triangle, a custody battle over an illegitimate child and a possible murder-for-hire involving one of Akron's most powerful families.

Though her stepmother later said 10-year-old Zahra died on September 24, 2010, she didn’t report her missing until October 9. Read the tragic story of a young girl whose fight with cancer was an inspiration to those around her, and whose gruesome murder garnered international attention.

Anita Cobby, former beauty queen and nurse, was killed by a gang of spineless cowards who preyed on women and other people's property between prison terms. Between the five of them, they had over 50 convictions for offenses including larceny, illegal drug use, car theft, breaking and entering, armed robbery, escaping lawful custody, receiving stolen goods, assault, and rape. Her murder united...

Robert Lee Yates Jr., also known as the Grocery Bag Killer, is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1975 to 1998, he is known to have murdered at least 11 women in Spokane. He also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit County. In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County and sentenced to death, but...

Leonarda Cianciulli, widely recognized as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio," was an Italian serial killer who lured women to her home with sinister motives.

In the late 1800s, the Bender family, posing as German immigrants, ran a one-room cabin known as the Bender Inn in Labette County, Kansas. Beneath their facade of hospitality, they lured guests to their gruesome deaths, marked by head injuries and slashed throats.

Bernie Tiede, a respected mortician in Carthage, Texas, still had the backing of his community even after he fatally shot his 81-year-old companion, Marjorie Nugent, in 1996.

A compilation of heists throughout the 20th Century

In 1985, Kevin Cooper was found guilty of the heinous murders of a Chino Hills, California family, and a young houseguest. Since then, he has been confined to death row at San Quentin prison.

In January 1966, Philadelphia man Calvin Jones escaped charges of murder due to a really bizarre coincidence.

Twins suffering from shared psychosis Sabina and Ursula Eriksson wreaked chaos on M6 before one went on to kill an innocent man.

Convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt persuade Joyce Mitchell, a bored and restless small-town mother, to assist them in their audacious prison break.

Sharon Rina Lopatka was an Internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, Maryland, United States who was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide. Lopatka was strangled to death on October 16, 1996, by Robert "Bobby" Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina.

Karla Faye Tucker was a convicted murderer in the United States. She gained significant attention due to her gender and the nature of her crime. In 1984, she and her accomplice Daniel Garrett murdered two people with a pickaxe during a home invasion in Houston, Texas. Their victims were Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Thornton.

Melvin Henry Ignatow was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, who was tried for the 1988 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer. The case was controversial since Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but later admitted to killing Schaefer. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was instead convicted and jailed...